Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-16

speak she arises quietly, and with cer-
 tain appearance of dignity. She rests
 one hand on the table and occasionally
 gesticulates with the other. That her
 form is slightly bent is probably caused
 by her position, her figure being too
 tall to allow her hand to support her
 without stopping. She is thin and wiry.
 Her hair is black, smooth and carefully
 parted in the middle. Her voice is low and
 moderate. seldom rising to tone consistent
 with the wildness of the words; her language
 is good and her construction grammatical.
 Her speeches are all pretty much the same.
 She has certain set phrases with which she interlards her remarks, end which the peo- pie love to hear and to applaud. Her favor ite sentences are: s'Long live anarchyl' declared we will march against and destroy the palaces in the St. Germain quarter.''
 ''The priests promise you heaven if you are good and threaten you a hell if you are bad. There is nothing of the kind; heaven is here on earth, and you must take it for have our full share of it." ''It is not man we wish to destroy, but the mould in which he is made, that mould being the existing form of society," All of these sentiments 'ELouise, my saint" rattles off
 at one time or another, and her speeches generally command complete attention. If anyone is indiscreet enough to attempt 8 whispered conversation with a neighbor while she is speaking he is at once re- minded by misses and cries of silence that he is creating disturbance and finds it
 better for his peace of mind to cut his remarks short. Most of the men who fol- low Louise on the rostrum are not treated
 with the same respect. The audience is
 apt to thin out after she has spoken, and
 pays more attention to what takes place
 in the body of the hall than to what is said from the stage. Little tolerance is
 shown for speeches opposed to the senti-
 ment of the meeting. A man desiring to
 contradict the sentiments of a speaker sat-
 urated with anarchical principles is hoot-
 ed at; his words are drowned in the gen.
 eral confusion, and he is forced to descend from the platform. To her credit be it said
 Louise protests against this conduct and fav- ors free speech, but even "Louise, my saint, J
 cannot persuade the anarchist spirit to tolerate
 opposition.
 Feminine Ideas in Boston.
 From the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.I In Papantis Hall, not a great many years ago, overheard keen-eyed woman, retained there, I believe, as an assistant teacher of steps to small children, say, ill speaking to an on-looker: ''There are some
 children come here that pity from the bot
 tom of my heart, they go through such pur-
 gatory of snubbing! I wouldn't subject g
 child of mine to it for all the accomplish
 ments in the world"
 Even the domestics of certain families
 quite imbued with the feelings of their employers. Not long ago I heard lady
 on the Back Bay laughingly tell of an old housekeeper who had spent nearly all her days with one family and still served 1 member of it. One of the most talked of of Bostons newly rich families lives | close by this faithful Abigail, and some
 body asked her question about theil | social goings-on, which are pitched on g l scale of splendid extravaganza. 'Indeed I know nothing about them except what I see from the windows" was the re ply. sI make it a rule to discourage our help from having anything to say to theirs, I never hear a word from the Psrvenues!" Even baby carriages on | the same street, far from afiliating, are
 known to look askance at each other, l and the passages at-a-ms are retailed where they will be appreciated. One thing, how ever, in this line is much changed-do | mestics now freely exchange service from families of old to new conditions of wealth | which good authority concurs in saying was not the a generation or two | ago. An elderly dame says that in in
 time she was frequently met with the fol | lowing delicate feeler: 'I want to b. l sure that them 1 work for, maam, ii 1 frst-class. I never served any other, anc don't want to hurt me reference" IT those days, too, any well-placed mistress
 could, through caprice or malice. keep g l servant from earning her bread thr0ugh | denying referenee-in this respect, sure | ly, the tables have turned with 8 ven- ] geance. Our present generation has be come more refined of phrase, and learned | how to carry insolence to a fine art, but
 it doesn't get its blood up as of old One could hardly hear to-day of young
 matron of leading family being summon
 ed into court for striking her handmaiden
 as did really happen in the not so very
 remote past of which we are speaking | There was vastly more of the spirit of the 1 English bullying to the front then, and it was really this and nothing else that gave suct peculiar pungency to some of the characteris tics of the old merchants